Rahul Sapra
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
Toronto, Ontario
rsapra@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 556140
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Bio/Research
Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University in 2005, Dr. Rahul Sapra worked as a Permanent Lecturer (Tenured) at the University of Delhi (S.G.T.B. Khalsa College). He completed his PhD at Queen’s University, where he was also awarded a Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Sapra’s research interests includ...
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Bio/Research
Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University in 2005, Dr. Rahul Sapra worked as a Permanent Lecturer (Tenured) at the University of Delhi (S.G.T.B. Khalsa College). He completed his PhD at Queen’s University, where he was also awarded a Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Sapra’s research interests include Early Modern / Renaissance Literatures, Shakespearean Drama and Performance, Film Studies, Literary Theory and Postcolonial Studies. His book The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India provides alternatives to Edward Said’s discourse of “Orientalism” by challenging recent postcolonial readings of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European, predominantly English, travel narratives and other texts such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dryden’s Aureng-Zebe. The book exposes the ahistorical and essentialist tendencies in the works of theorists such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Kate Teltscher and others. The Limits of Orientalism has been praised for making a “useful contribution to the revisionist assault on Said’s Orientalism” (Times Literary Supplement). Dr. Sapra is currently the Subject Editor of the “Film Section” of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Dr. Sapra has been an advocate for a high quality, accessible and affordable post-secondary education in Ontario. He has worked tirelessly for improved government funding of Ontario’s post-secondary institutions and for better terms and conditions of employment for faculty and academic librarians. For the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), he was Vice-President (2017-2019), President (2019-2021), and Past-President (2021-2023). OCUFA represents 17,000 faculty and academic librarians in 30 Faculty Associations across Ontario. He was also Vice-President (External) of the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association (TFA) (Formerly RFA) from 2014-2018.
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Dr. Sapra has been an advocate for a high quality, accessible and affordable post-secondary education in Ontario. He has worked tirelessly for improved government funding of Ontario’s post-secondary institutions and for better terms and conditions of employment for faculty and academic librarians. For the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), he was Vice-President (2017-2019), President (2019-2021), and Past-President (2021-2023). OCUFA represents 17,000 faculty and academic librarians in 30 Faculty Associations across Ontario. He was also Vice-President (External) of the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association (TFA) (Formerly RFA) from 2014-2018.
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